"Defaults are not likely to exceed $20 billion, which is less than 1 percent of all municipal bonds outstanding," Richard Larkin, senior vice president and director of credit analysis at investment bank Herbert J. Sims, said.

Bank of America does not need to raise fresh capital to comply with the new regulations shaping the financial world and the quality of its credit portfolios is getting better, CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC.

Austerity measures put in place by peripheral euro zone countries will eventually bear fruit, but going forward bond investors will have to start getting used to taking losses on their principal, Erik Nielsen, the Chief European Economist at Goldman Sachs, told CNBC Friday.

The US needs to take urgent action to cut its debt in order to prevent the next financial crisis, which may start in Washington, Sheila Bair, chair of the Federal Deposits Insurance Corp. (FDIC) wrote in an editorial in the Washington Post.

The US needs to deleverage the financial system and restore market discipline and must keep the effects of protracted low interest rates in mind, as a bond bubble seems to be developing, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair told CNBC.

Despite regulations aimed at making credit card agreements more consumer friendly, new cardholders who carry plastic from the No. 2 U.S. bank won't know the exact cost of making a borrowing mistake until it's too late.

The administrator of Lehman Brothers’ German business has sold $2.4 billion of claims against the failed bank to a group of distressed debt funds, in a move that may help expedite the unwinding of the bank’s assets.

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